Benjamin Zablocki
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Benjamin David Zablocki (January 19, 1941 – April 6, 2020) was an American professor of
charismatic religious movements, cults, and brainwashing
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Early life and education
Born in Brooklyn, New York, Zablocki received his B.A. in mathematics from Columbia University in 1962 and his Ph.D. in social relations from the Johns Hopkins University in 1967, where he studied with James S. Coleman.
Career
Zablocki was the Sociology department chair at Rutgers University. He published widely on the sociology of religion.[1][2][3]
Zablocki defined a cult as “an ideological organization held together by charismatic relationships and demanding total commitment” blacklisted" from the academic journals of sociology of religion. Such blacklisters, Zablocki asserted, receive lavish funding from alleged cults and engage in "corrupt" practices.[5]
Selected works
Books
- The Joyful Community: An Account of the Bruderhof: A Communal Movement Now in Its Third Generation. Chicago: University of Chicago Press (1971, reissued 1980) ISBN 0226977498
- Alienation and Charisma: A Study of Contemporary American Communes. New York: The Free Press. (1980) ISBN 0029357802
- ISBN 0802081886
Articles
- “The Blacklisting of a Concept: The Strange History of the Brainwashing Conjecture in the Sociology of Religion” in Nova Religio (1997) 1 (1): 96–121 [8]
- “Methodological Fallacies in Anthony's Critique of Exit Cost Analysis” in Cultic Studies Review, 4(2), 2005 [9]
- “The Birth and Death of New Religious Movements” (ca. 2005) [10]
- “Ethics and the Modern Guru” (ca. 2016), an interview on brainwashing [11]
References
- ISBN 978-0415965774.
- ISBN 978-0815627005.
- ISBN 978-3110176988.
- ^ https://www.icsahome.com/articles/dialogue-and-cultic-studies-icsa-board-it-4-3
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- ^ ISBN 978-0802081889.
- ISBN 978-0802081889.
- ^ https://online.ucpress.edu/nr/article-abstract/1/1/96/66615/THE-BLACKLISTING-OF-A-CONCEPT-THE-STRANGE-HISTORY?redirectedFrom=fulltext
- ^ https://articles2.icsahome.com/articles/methodological-fallacies-in-anthony-s-critique-of-exit-cost-analysis
- ^ https://web.archive.org/web/20060310100019/http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~zablocki/birth%20and%20death%20of%20new%20religious%20movements.htm
- ^ https://cultexpert.net/2022/02/25/the-late-benjamin-zablocki-talks-about-cults-and-mind-control/
External links
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